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Saddam broke 12 UN resolutions, so we had every right to go over there, it just was not a good economic decision for us.
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Yes, Saddam broke
UN resolutions. Not
US resolutions. Since when did the UN send us in as their proxy? As I recall, the UN was pretty strongly
against Bush's invasion. So how can you claim we were justified by using Saddam's violation of UN resolutions as your talking point? It just doesn't work.
On the subject of The Royal Shrubbery - oh, how I despise that man's reign over this country. I can think of only a few ways, perhaps, that he could have turned the world from sympathy and support to disdain and contempt more solidly and rapidly than he did, while it would not have been hard at all to take that goodwill and put it to constructive use. But no, we had to go play cowboy, and look where it's gotten us. National surplus into massive national debt, economy falling down around our ears, restrictive theocratic policies sliding insidiously under the radar - government funding of religiously-based educational programs, anyone? - international dislike for our high-handed and imperialistic brattiness...how, exactly, CAN the man be remembered well in the history books?
And by the way, Reagan is not so universally fondly-remembered as some think.